ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a review of research that has utilized skill assessments in golf, as well as develops an awareness and understanding of the advantages and disadvantages relating to their use. It also delivers literature-based guidance as to how the quality of a skill assessment can be measured. A researcher may design an assessment of an accuracy-based motor skill, test a given sample of a population and then undertake a reassessment at a later date in order to determine the efficacy of the intervention. Prior to the widespread use of technologies to measure player skill, many of these assessments focused on relatively closed golf skills performed in relatively controlled environments. As technology continues to improve, the ability for crucial process and outcome information to be collected with ease and precision will increase. Skills testing need to continue to not only display the characteristics shown in the chapter but also interact with technologies to remain relevant.
